Re: [PATCH] fi_FI: Define yesstr, nostr

[Marko Myllynen <myllynen at redhat dot com>]

Hi,

On 2013-03-21 00:29, Keld Simonsen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 09:48:57PM +0200, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
>> Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>>> Review is good but were you aware that you are asking a non-native
>>> speaker to review the translation of Yes/No by a native speaker?-) More
>>> seriously, the translations I've provided are also present in the CLDR
>>> data for fi.
>>
>> As another native speaker of Finnish, I confirm that yesstr="Kyllä"
>> and nostr="Ei" are the correct words.
>>
>> I had some doubts on whether the words should be capitalized.
>> Several other locales (including cs_CZ and tr_TR) use lower case
>> for yesstr and nostr, and "kyllä" and "ei" are normally written in
>> lower case in Finnish if they occur in the middle of a sentence.
>> However, I suppose yesstr and nostr are intended to be the entire
>> answer to some question asked by an application, rather than part
>> of a sentence, so "Kyllä" and "Ei" should be fine.

this is the rationale I used as well and the locales I happened to check
for reference (POSIX and en_IN) both had them capitalized. I would
suppose that if the words are in the middle of a sentence then they are
coming from an application which would have been translated themselves
and the plain yesstr/nostr are used in cases like you mentioned in your
follow-up email.

> My information is also that "Kyllä" and "Ei" are the correct words in Finnish.
> However, these are not the answers that Finnish people expect to 
> write in such answers. The expectation is to just write one character.

Yes, that expectation should be covered by yesexpr/noexpr.

I think in general this discussion shows the level of detail which
should be included in the documentation to make sure glibc locales
consistent. I'll try to add few sentences to the wiki page next week.

Thanks,

-- 
Marko Myllynen